Word: affectionate
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College students from Wellesley to UMass can express their affection by giving their partner a teddy bear with a message, but apparently not Harvard students.
A. I don't think they think of "sleeping with." They only know what is constantly drummed into them. And I don't think my children feel any lack of affection or any rivalry. Soon-Yi and I will be very, very cognizant of their situation and feelings.
"Anyone who comes into a marriage with a teenage child needs to exercise extra caution about incest," warns psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola School of Medicine, in Chicago. "That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent." Freudian theory holds that the earliest erotic impulses...
Both young actresses achieve an unforced naturalism in their work, and so does Anders, whose first major feature this is. A single mother (and once a welfare client), she is less interested in making melodrama -- or ideological points -- out of these lives than she is in showing how testy affection...
Once Sulzberger became deputy publisher in 1988, he felt for the first time "the job was mine to lose." His confidence increased, and the Lettermanesque wise-guy side of his personality receded. Reporters noticed a deeper affection growing between him and his father, "Punch" Sulzberger. One editor observed, "Arthur took...